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Junge schreiben - mehr als je zuvor
(Young people write – more than ever)
Newspaper | St. Galler Tagblatt
Date | 29.1.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | language threat, smartphone, texting, word/writing, youth
Summary | Ever since the Swiss youth did poorly in the PISA survey of 2000, critics have been blaming new technologies for deteriorating young people's linguistic skills. English literature lecturer Mario Andreotti however outlines that today's teens write more than previous generations, albeit less formally, because they use their phones to write rather than talk. Because texting does not follow the rigid formal rules of writing but rather is just spoken discourse written down, some experts assume that these relaxed writing habits may worsen students’ writing skills in general.
Image Description | Photograph of three teenagers who are not interacting: two of them are looking at their phones.
Image Tags | male(s), smartphone
Mädchen fotografieren, Knaben gamen
(Girls take photographs, boys play games)
Newspaper | St. Galler Tagblatt
Date | 11.2.2015
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | research/study, smartphone, youth
Summary | A study repeated biannually by the Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften (ZHAW) collects data on teenagers‘ use of old and new media. Close to 100% of teenagers own a phone, the vast majority a smartphone, and most of them use it daily. The data shows that most girls are more interested in listening to music and taking photographs while most boys care more about playing games and watching videos.
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